In France, some soldiers speak of an armed solution to avoid the drift of society

A provocative letter written to an ultraconservative French magazine and signed by retired generals, but also by officers and active soldiers, apprehends democratic France and signals a new possible strategy of the far right to direct the political debate towards forms that were thought now no longer usable. The recipients of the letter are all representatives of the political class of the French country, who are warned of the risk of disintegration of the nation and its society, to the point of foreshadowing a potential civil war. The analysis of the situation by the military authors of the letter presents a very serious assessment of the current French political and social situation, defined as apocalyptic, caused by factors of profound capacity for disintegration, such as Islamism and what are defined as the hordes of the suburbs, but also the populist revolts, such as that of the groups defined as yellow vests, which have produced serious revolts against the police. The conclusion is that the current society has produced a laxity that is too dangerous for the values ​​of the country and that the current situation seems to be without a return to the military, if not through the action of the armed forces. The intention is to protect the values ​​of national civilization, endangered by multiculturalism, and thus protect French citizens on their national territory and prevent a civil war that could upset the country. This is clearly a too conservative and extremist vision, which highlights an interpretation of the current French moment in an extremely nationalist direction; however, albeit in a disturbing way, this represents an unequivocal signal of the presence of a malaise on the causes of which, not on the ways of resolution, there may be some sharing. What is in contradiction with the French democratic spirit is not knowing how to propose alternative methods to the use of force in order not to solve problems, such as the lack of integration of Muslim society, often relegated to the ghettos of the suburbs, often caused precisely by those political sectors that share the same arguments of the letter. In this regard, the support given to the military authors of the letter by the leader of the largest French far-right formation is significant, who shared their concerns and invited them to share in the political struggle, albeit in a peaceful way: that the arguments were common it is not surprising, but that a possible military turn could become a political tool of a party, albeit of the far right, is a worrying factor both as a factor within French politics and as a factor within the European Union. Now this represents a void in the Brussels legislation that must be filled as soon as possible, in order to outlaw those political formations, even if democratically elected, which think they support and use in an instrumental way any help provided by the armed forces outside their institutional duties. If the problem is also Europe, in the first place, it involves France, which now must demonstrate that it knows how to govern this rebellion while it is still in the early stages, making a careful selection of the leaders of its armed forces, to dispel any doubts about its own. democratic seal. Paris, after Berlin, represents the most important member of the Union and a France under threat cannot be tolerated: in practice, the French country is not, let it be said with all due respect, Hungary or another of the countries of the former bloc. Soviet, which often feed doubts on the real democratic capacity and on the real reasons for joining Brussels, France is one of the founders of the European Union and one of the leaders precisely by virtue of the acknowledged adherence to the founding democratic values ​​of European ideals. Certainly the sentiment of the military who wrote the worrying letter is a minority in the French country and in the armed forces itself, but the support thus shown by the leader of the major far-right force, who nevertheless reached the ballot to become president, represents a fact. which cannot worry democrats across Europe and which is a reason why Brussels must act as soon as possible to prevent others in other countries from following this reckless situation.